Ⅰ.租赁业概况北宋的开封和南宋的临安等城市的居住人口,接近或者超过了100万。这些大城市的居住民会不会都拥有自己的住宅而生活下去的呢?对于这个问题,当然可以推测为不少人没有拥有自己的住宅,从而在宋代的城市里存在了不少的住宅赁贷业者。但是,赁贷业者的生活情况又很不一样,有些人只出租较为高档的一套房子,而他们中大多数在城市里过得比较富裕的生活,有的是已经 I. Overview of the Leasing Industry The population of cities in Kaifeng in the Northern Song Dynasty and Lin’an in the Southern Song Dynasty approaches or exceeds 1 million. Can not the residents of these metropolitan cities have their own dwellings to live on? Of course, it can be speculated that many people do not own their dwellings, and there are many residential leases in the Song Dynasty cities Lenders. However, the living conditions of lending and borrowing workers are very different. Some people rent only a relatively high-end house, and most of them live a relatively affluent life in the cities. Some of them already have